The United States want to forge with the EU, Israel and Arab countries, a coalition against Iran. At a conference in Warsaw discussed the future of the Region.
To the initiated by the United States conference in Warsaw, representatives from 63 countries come to Iran, the main topic at the Meeting was. Officially it should go to the conference to the peace process and humanitarian crises in the Middle East. However, the message from Warsaw, is a significant threat to Tehran.
“There is no peace in the Middle East without a confrontation with Iran,” said US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo prior to the opening of the conference. At lunch, the sound was sharper, as US Vice-President Mike Pence by the Europeans demanded that the 2015-completed nuclear deal with Iran will fall. The USA have the agreement that, among other things, UN inspectors should secure access to the Iranian nuclear program, already in 2018 will be terminated.
U.S. criticism of the Europeans
In Warsaw, he called on the European signatories to “the agreement to withdraw and a coalition for peace in the Middle East to join”. He criticized the recently of Germany, France and the UK based financial company INSTEX, which aims to facilitate trade between the EU and Iran to bypass the sanctions of the USA.
Criticism of the Europeans: the US Vice-President Mike Pence
For Pence, it is “an attempt to break with the against a vicious regime targeted US sanctions”. The Initiative would create between the USA and the EU at a distance. Pence praised the sanctions by Arab and other States against Iran, and added: “Unfortunately, some of our leading European partners is not nearly so cooperative. Instead, they try to create mechanisms to circumvent our sanctions.”
The controversial nuclear agreement
Pence accused Iran of interference in regional conflicts and support of terrorism. With the leadership position in world Affairs that would have obtained in the United States, under President Donald Trump, wanted to fight the USA, Islamic terrorism.
“If you stand with us in this noble concern for the page, then we also to you,” said Pence. The last sentence of the sharp speech was perceived by many as an indirect threat to you otherwise, to refuse in solidarity.
Germany remains the nuclear agreement
Germany was represented at the Warsaw conference by the Minister of state at the Federal foreign office Niels Annen, rejects the American demands. Anne agrees that you need in the Iran-policy pressure and takes the example of the withdrawal of landing rights in Germany for the Iranian airline Mahan. “But we also need the cooperation on the basis of this international agreement and we will continue to so with each other,” he explained.
Nils Annen: Europeans in the Iran question on a line
He firmly believe that the Europeans, in Iran-question to be on one line, and the fact that Iran has not been invited to Warsaw, was no obstacle to a dialogue on peace in the Middle East. The Warsaw conference, says Annen, like many other European participants, but no breakthrough.
A “historic turning point”
More enthusiasm came from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sitting at dinner, in the run-up to the conference, together with representatives of Arab States at a table and from a “historic turning point”. The Yemeni foreign Minister Khaled Hussein Alyemany, at the celebratory dinner in the Warsaw castle the place between Netanyahu and US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo took.
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“For the first Time, we came together to discuss the Iranian hazards. This will have a strong impact on our Region,” he told DW. He called Iran a “terrorist state” and accused the Iranian government’s support of the Yemeni rebel groups with money and weapons. The Warsaw conference showed that many countries, including Israel, “have understood the need to unite to stop the diabolical urge Iran to interference in the internal Affairs of other countries”. Khaled Hussein Alyemany attributed mainly to the support of the United States.
Poland and the United States: common interests
The Warsaw conference also shows the growth of a different Alliance, namely between the USA and Poland. Warsaw, which followed the US Initiative and in the short term, large-scale international Meetings-organized, is primarily concerned with the strengthening of the NATO Eastern flank, but also to the Polish friendship with Washington.
Poland’s foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz hopes for more support from the USA
Poland’s national-conservative government sees the United States as the most important guarantee of security. With the involvement in middle East issues, Poland shows its willingness to engage in geopolitical concerns of the USA in other regions of the world.
The power of the United States
In Warsaw started the process of Poland would like to put the outside continue to Minister Jacek Czaputowicz. He speaks of a so-called “Warsaw process”. He referred to circles for more discussions in the works. In the working groups to counter terrorism, weapons, Cyber and energy security, and refugee issues.
For overcoming the problems in the Middle East you don’t “need according to Czaputowicz necessarily the United States, because the EU have the political power”. Only the commitment of the United States and other forces of the “democratic world” would allow the solution of the problems in the Middle East, the Minister said at the conclusion of the Warsaw conference.